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I received my PhD in Criminology from Simon Fraser University and my MA and BA in Sociology from Queen’s University.
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a lecturer (assistant professor) at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Throughout my career I have worked as a SafeGrowth® facilitator helping to develop safer and more liveable cities around the world.
My current research interests focus broadly on community safety, with a specific focus on policing, crime prevention and spatial criminology. I am working on projects to improve strategic planning and implementation with police services across Canada and developing crime prevention strategies in rural and small municipalities.
My research is informed by a social constructionist/critical realist approach, though I work extensively in the area of environmental criminology. I use a myriad of methods in addressing my research questions including action research, spatial and quantitative analysis and qualitative methods.
- 2023: Early Career Researcher Award - Wilfrid Laurier University
- 2021: International Society for the Study of Rural Crime – Joseph F. Donnermeyer New Scholar Award
- 2021: American Society of Criminology Division of Communities and Place – Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award
- 2018: Office of Crime Reduction and Gang Outreach Grant – Province of British Columbia
- 2017: Organization Studies Emerging Scholar Award
I am currently willing to supervise students on qualitative and quantitative projects that fall under the umbrella of community safety. This generally includes projects on policing, crime prevention, environmental (spatial) criminology, victimology and rural criminology. I am a member of the Graduate Program in Criminology. I work closely with graduate students to develop projects that are theoretically and methodologically important, feasible, and publishable.
Hodgkinson, T., Caputo, T. & Martino, N. (2023). The governance gap: Examining the capacity of police service boards to hold police services accountable in Canada. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.
Hodgkinson, T. & Martino, N. (2023). Less than idyllic: Crime specialization in rural and remote Queensland, Australia. Journal of Rural Studies.
McIntyre, M., Hodgkinson, T., & Caputo, T. (2023). Strategic planning processes in policing: Evidence from the field. Policing: An International Journal.
Hodgkinson, T., Schaefer, L., Harte, N., Pearson N., Lonergan, N., & Barber, C. (2023). And you know, we’re on each other’s team: Lessons from an in-depth analysis of researcher-practitioner partnerships in criminal justice research. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.
Hodgkinson, T. & Pringle, D. (2023). Alternative response officers: Investing in policing alternatives and community safety in Saskatoon, Canada. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 17, Article paac109.
Hodgkinson, T. Corcoran, J. & Andresen, M.A. (2023). Violent assault geographies in Northeastern Australia. PlosOne, 18(3), Article e0282522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282522
Andresen, M.A., & Hodgkinson, T. (2023). In a world called catastrophe: The impact of COVID-19 on neighbourhood level crime in Vancouver, Canada. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 19(2), 487 – 511.
Sabine, C. & Hodgkinson, T. (2022). Night after night, my heartbeat shows the fear: Examining predictors of fear of crime in the nonurban Australian context. International Criminal Justice Review.
Andresen, M.A., & Hodgkinson, T. (2022). Stumbling from one disaster to another: The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health calls for police service across Canada. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 64(4), 1 – 20.
Hodgkinson, T., Andresen, M.A., Frank, R., & Pringle, D. (2022). Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada. Journal of Criminal Justice, 78, Article 101881.
Hodgkinson, T. & Harris, B. (2022). The impact of the “Not Now, Not Ever”: Recommendations on police-reported domestic violence in Queensland, Australia. Violence Against Women, 28(15-16), 3703 – 3725.
Hodgkinson, T (2021). It’s been a long time running: New understandings of crime severity and specialization in Canada’s longest running crime capital, North Battleford. Canadian Geographer.
Hodgkinson, T., Saville, G., & Andresen, M.A. (2020). The diffusion of detriment: tracking displacement using a city-wide mixed methods approach. British Journal of Criminology, 60(1), 198 – 218.
- CC303: Victimology
- CC327: Statistics in Criminology
- CC415: Advanced Issues in Policing
- CC603: Theories of Crime and Control
- CC614: Advanced Studies on Policing
- CC625: Crime and Place